UK offshore wind sector predicts 43,000 new jobs, £60billion investment by 2026
The number of jobs in the UK offshore wind industry will swell by more than 43,000 within the next five years, according to a new report.
The number of jobs in the UK offshore wind industry will swell by more than 43,000 within the next five years, according to a new report.
Scotland has given a ten-fold increase to maximum bids for its offshore wind auction, ScotWind, after Big Oil flexed its financial muscles last month.
Plans for a new Global Underwater Hub for subsea engineering, led from Aberdeen, has been allocated £6.5million of Scottish Government funding.
Industry leaders have warned that the pace of vaccine rollout in the North Sea could be moving too slowly to deal with a rising maintenance backlog, as a crucial shutdown period approaches.
The Prosafe vessel Safe Caledonia is heading back to work for a Total contract, after more than a year being laid up in waters off Orkney.
Bilfinger Salamis has landed a multi-million pound inspection deal with Altera Infrastructure.
Amazon Prime has hired a pair of Aberdeen oil companies to help supply the set of its new TV series “The Rig”.
The upheaval of 2020 accelerated a number of trends that were already in motion, some slower in motion than others: flexible working, digital communication and employee wellbeing to name but a few.
BP has taken a $2.79bn (£2billion) impairment on the value of its oil and gas assets in the UK North Sea.
BP CEO Bernard Looney was awarded a total pay package of £1.7million in 2020.
Petrofac has been cut off from three of its “largest and most promising” oil markets globally after being suspended from Adnoc tenders, according to new analysis.
The decommissioning bill for NEO Energy’s newly-acquired Exxon Mobil assets in the UK has been estimated at $1.1billion (£795m).
Taqa is considering options for its oil and gas assets in the UK and elsewhere, including a potential sale, as the state-owned utility focuses more on power generation, people familiar with the matter said.
Drilling contractor Odfjell has been awarded a five-year contract with Taqa in the UK.
A retired oil tycoon has been ordered to pay a firm more than £210,000 following a contract dispute over a housing development.
Further job cuts are planned at oilfield equipment firm Dril-Quip in Aberdeen as it moves manufacturing work out of the region, Energy Voice understands.
A Scottish court has given the green light to the merger of UK operators Chrysaor and Premier Oil.
For those who had been tracking technical indicators of oil this month, the message was clear: Crude prices had risen too quickly.
Mark and Ed are away, so the digital journalists will… play…?
The UK North Sea is next on the list of growth targets for Ineos Energy, according to executive chairman Brian Gilvary.
Ineos has announced a $150million (£108m) deal to buy the oil and gas assets of Hess Corporation in Denmark.
Stars from Game of Thrones, Schitts Creek and Line of Duty are joining the new Amazon Prime show “The Rig”, to be filmed in Scotland.
BP has announced plans for what it described as the “UK’s largest” hydrogen project.
Chrysaor and Premier Oil have issued their last sets of separate financial results ahead of completing their merger at the end of the month.
A new joint venture has been announced of TechnipFMC and Oslo-listed renewables firm Magnora, which is planning to participate in the ScotWind offshore leasing round.